New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

POLITICIAN

Eduardo Santos

1888 - 1974

Photo of Eduardo Santos

Icon of person Eduardo Santos

Eduardo Santos Montejo (August 28, 1888 – March 27, 1974) was a leading Colombian publisher and politician, active in the Colombian Liberal Party. He purchased the prominent Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo in 1913; El Tiempo was founded by his brother-in-law Alfonso Villegas Restrepo in 1911. Members of the Santos family were the main shareholders of the paper until 2007.He served as the President of Colombia from August 1938 to August 1942, having been elected without opposition. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eduardo Santos has received more than 45,956 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Eduardo Santos is the 13,487th most popular politician (down from 11,825th in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 67th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Colombian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 46k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Eduardo Santos by language


Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Eduardo Santos ranks 13,487 out of 15,577Before him are Stephen Allen Benson, Jean Lassalle, László Lukács, Duleep Singh, Henri Masson, and Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. After him are Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Prince Frederick of Great Britain, Geraldine Ferraro, Dominique Mbonyumutwa, Henck Arron, and Emil Voigt.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Eduardo Santos ranks 176Before him are Elisabeth Schumann, Nils Dardel, Marietta Shaginyan, Harry Beaumont, Edith Evans, and Rexhep Mitrovica. After him are Alfred Landé, J. B. Kripalani, Dora Gabe, Margarita Xirgu, Seán Lester, and Hans von Rosen. Among people deceased in 1974, Eduardo Santos ranks 164Before him are Guy Simonds, Zaharia Stancu, Ali Mansur, Else Alfelt, Arnaud Denjoy, and Ferreira de Castro. After him are Emil Väre, Nurul Amin, Cornelius Lanczos, Betty Compson, Margit Slachta, and Kostas Varnalis.

Others Born in 1888

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1974

Go to all Rankings

In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Eduardo Santos ranks 76 out of 306Before him are Jorge Luis Pinto (1952), Mario Yepes (1976), Freddy Rincón (1966), Carlos Vives (1961), Rafael Reyes (1849), and Carlos Bacca (1986). After him are José Eustasio Rivera (1888), José María Obando (1795), Gustavo Petro (1960), Antanas Mockus (1952), Juan Carlos Osorio (1961), and Timoleón Jiménez (1959).

Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Eduardo Santos ranks 32Before him are Alfonso López Pumarejo (1886), Manuel Amador Guerrero (1833), Mariano Ospina Pérez (1891), Guillermo León Valencia (1909), Joaquín Mosquera (1787), and Rafael Reyes (1849). After him are José María Obando (1795), Gustavo Petro (1960), Timoleón Jiménez (1959), Gabriel París Gordillo (1910), Miguel Abadía Méndez (1867), and Marta Lucía Ramírez (1954).